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• Use technical or professional terms to get more technical or professional results. For example, when looking for disease statistics, use incidence rather than numbers or statistics (or maybe prevalence might be more relevant).
• Use (double) quotation marks to define phrases (multiple words found together, rather than separately) - use "whooping cough" to find the exact phrase rather then whooping cough (which might find he started to cough after whooping for joy).
• Add site:gov.au to restrict results to only government websites.

You can also:

• use site:vic.gov.au to restrict to Victorian government web sites.
• use a year range to look for years in the results, such as daterange:2012-2015
• specify the filetype of results (such as only PDF documents).

You can also use parentheses (round brackets) and OR for alternative terms (works best at the end of the search line):

Remember about using professional or technical terms to find professional results? Try leaving out whooping cough and only searching for the medical term for the condition, pertussis.

We can also exclude a search term from our results (similar to using NOT in a database) by putting a hyphen or minus sign in front of the word (or phrase in quotes). For example, to exclude results that include the word Melbourne, we can use -Melbourne